attentively
advEtymology From Middle English attentifly, attentifli, equivalent to attentive + -ly.
1
In an attentive manner.
- 'It's a very clean cut,' said the Rat, examining it again attentively.1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:
- When Major saw that they had all made themselves comfortable and were waiting attentively, he cleared his throat and began1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
- Derived terms
- preattentively